Project period: 01.04.2022- 31.01.2029 (7 years)

Description: Improving the practice of higher nursing education and developing practical courses.

Goals:

1. Improving the quality of higher nursing education;

2. Support in strengthening the capacity to respond to infectious diseases in Bishkek.

Objectives:

• Improvement of Higher nursing education:
• Development of the STATE VPO
  - Implementation and functioning of the Bachelor's degree program in the direction of nursing and accelerated training
  - Implementation and functioning of the primary specialization nursing program
  - Implementation and functioning of the Master's degree program in nursing
• Improving the educational environment
  - Provision of material and technical equipment
  - Optimization of the clinical mentoring program
  - Expansion of practical/simulation rooms for students of the Faculty of Higher Nursing Education
• Improving the competence of teaching staff
  - Teaching staff (seminars / trainings/ short-term internships)
  - Organization and holding of scientific conferences
• Strengthening the capacity to collect and analyze medical data
  - Organization and functioning of the cabinet to strengthen research skills

2. Increasing the capacity to respond to infectious diseases in residential areas of Bishkek:

• Training of PHC medical personnel in response to infectious diseases
  - Training of medical personnel of polyclinics and secondary schools in response to infectious diseases. Training in informing the population about infectious diseases
  - Development of a practical course program for students of the Department of SD “PHC in infectious diseases”
• Systematization of data collection on infectious diseases
  - Development of a system for collecting and analyzing data on infectious diseases
  - Implementation of a system for collecting and analyzing data on infectious diseases

Funding organization: National Research Foundation under the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea
Grant Holder: Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Total project budget: 2.5 billion Korean Won